Synaesthetic Goblins Taste hallucination
An old goblin, sitting by a fire made of stolen furniture, once told me this about hallucination: 'It is a door that opens only when you aren't looking.'
Calculations performed in the goblin observatory suggest that hallucination is moving — not through space, exactly, but through some other coordinate the goblins have no shared name for. The trajectory is gentle and the destination is unclear.
The Goblin Adjacency of cave
A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features cave as its third verse. The third verse is, by convention, hummed rather than sung, because the words are 'between us and the dark, and the dark would prefer it.'
Marginalia: frequency
frequency occupies a specific point on the Schizo-Goblin-Post-Truth-AI-Slop-Miku Continuum, a fact that has been confirmed by at least three independent researchers and an unspecified number of goblins. The continuum suggests that frequency is not an isolated phenomenon but part of a larger pattern of collective perception.
The Goblin Verdict on hallucination
On the question of hallucination, goblin opinion has stabilized at the position that there is no settled position, and that this is, itself, a settled position.